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- Firewood and poetry - Orleans Star
Firewood and poetryOrleans Star, Canada - 22 hours ago... there's now sunlight and air and room for new growth. Waxing poetic, you say? Well, maybe so, but poetry's as good a thing as a warm house.
- Fontana season opens with brilliant Renaud Garcia-Fons Trio show - Kalamazoo Gazette
Fontana Chamber Arts opened its 2008-09 concert season on Thursday night with an electrifying performance by the Renaud Garcia-Fons Trio. Western Michigan University's Dalton Center Recital Hall, the new home for this year's concert series, proved to ...
- Five questions for Dominic Berry - Metro
MetroFive questions for Dominic BerryMetro, UK - 4 hours agoHis first poetry collection, Tomorrow, I Will Go Dancing, is launched at Central Library on Thursday. What can people expect from Tomorrow, ...
- Poetic License (The Art Of Writing About Music) (Arts Journal)
"The past century has taught us that good writing can appear in unexpected forms: film scripts, Sopranos-type series, the storytelling of R. Crumb or Art Spiegelman, for instance. And writing about poetry, particularly praising contemporary poetry, is a fine but extremely difficult art."
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - Launch.com
Few rock groups of the '80s broke down as many musical barriers and were as original as the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Creating an intoxicating new musical style by combining funk and punk rock together (with an explosive stage show, to boot), the Chili ...
- The Looming Obamasm? - Andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com
Reporters do their least self-conscious work when they're startled by a story they hadn't prepared to write. Think of the astonishing coverage of the 9/11 attack, natural disasters, and the 2000 election-that-would-not-end. But giving a reporter (or ...
- Back to the trenches - Times Online
Back to the trenchesTimes Online, UK - 1 hour agoIf it were, or rather if this book were, it would not only illuminate how “aspects of the British experience of the First World War” (to use its subtitle) ...
- News in brief (West Salem Coulee News)
Here are a selection of brief news items from this week's paper edition, and possibly a few news briefs that didn't make it in the paper.
- 'Goldengrove' by Francine Prose (San Francisco Chronicle)
Goldengrove By Francine Prose Harper; 275 pages; $24.95 In "Goldengrove," Francine Prose tells the story of Nico, a 13-year-old girl whose life is torn apart by the death of her older sister. With perfect pitch and no trace of sentimentality, Prose, author of...
- Westlawn Elementary fourth-graders to have poetry reading tonight - Texarkana Gazette
Fourth-grade students at Westlawn Elementary School will host a “Write Night” from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. today. The family event will allow parents/guardians to write the night away and see students in action with poetry presentations, student ...
- Contribution of Bhitai lauded - Pakistan Daily Mail
Contribution of Bhitai laudedPakistan Daily Mail, Pakistan - 14 hours agoThe VC said that regular reading of poetry of Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai encourages more for to read the same continuously as it is based on life. ...
- Authors grieve over Wallace's apparent suicide (The Oklahoman)
NEW YORK (AP) -- The literary world is in grief for David Foster Wallace, an author of seemingly unstoppable curiosity, imagination and ambition who apparently killed himself last week. Readers are seeking out his work, including his 1,000-page novel "Infinite Jest" and the essay collection "Consider the Lobster." Wallace, who wrote with an explosive, ironic, but deeply serious passion about ...
- Peter Matthiessen wins National Book Award in fiction - Monsters and Critics
“Peter Matthiessen’s great American epic–Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man’s River, and Bone by Bone–was conceived as one vast mysterious novel, but because of its length it was originally broken up into three books. In this bold new ...
- Drama, poetry edge homeless woman closer to diploma - DesMoinesRegister.com
Drama, poetry edge homeless woman closer to diplomaDesMoinesRegister.com, IA - 2 hours ago"She may end up writing a poetry book, who knows?" Lenhart says, and the two women laugh. Mace's vision for her life evolves as she progresses through the ...
- Honno founder explains how women got a voice - WalesOnline
Honno founder explains how women got a voiceWalesOnline, United Kingdom - 5 hours agoLuned says: “We aimed to include in our publishing list autobiography, fiction, poetry, plays, reprints, children’s books and research into women’s history ...
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